Personal Page for Heather Stainback

Individual Research Assignment

Polaroid (R)evolution: Reinventing Instant Photography for the Digital Age


Here are some videos from my Japan experience:


ROBOTS!:


taking a bow:


knocking something over:


Here you can see that the Robot is controlled using a Wii remote (!!!)WiiRobot.jpg

Robots playing soccer:


In the motion capture studio:
These are the capture points that the computer picks up (light reflective material) placed on joints to capture realistic motion
MC2.jpg

The room has these red (ultra red?) lights that are used to capture the points, the data then goes into the computer and a computer program analyzes the information
MC1.jpg

How it is used:


How it can be used with video games to create an interactive/virtual reality simulation.


PiKA PiKA the movie (using long exposure, stop animation) very cutting edge, very cool.Learn more about it here: http://tochka.jp/pikapika/



How to make Pika Pika:

A short little stop animation video from the workshop we got to participate in:

The set up (stage, camera, computer)
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The stop action figure ranges of emotions:
catfaces.jpg



The whole group of us (Japanese students and Sheridan students) at the goodbye party (the Japanese sure know how to party and treat their guests like gods.... it was an incredible experience) Japan_group.jpg

NARA DEER (possibly my favorite part of the trip) they were everywhere, look at how cute this is:


cute little animation on the Nara deer:




and just for fun, Syuhei (one of the host students) singing KARAOKE!